"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two**, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research"
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Horizonwatching can be found on other social sites, just Google "HorizonWatching"
May 21, 2012
April 15, 2012
"We are constantly developing new, innovative ways to better serve our customers’ financial needs. We are working to rethink and redesign the various ways in which our customers and clients interact with money. We will collaborate with IBM to explore how we can use the Watson technology to provide our customers with new, secure services designed around their increasingly digital and mobile lives."
— Quote by Don Callahan, Citi’s Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Operations & Technology Officer. Quote found in an IBM press release titled “Citi and IBM Enter Exploratory Agreement on Use of Watson Technologies”
April 10, 2012
"In the era of big data, organizations are struggling to gain insights from information assets to transform business operations and be competitive in their industries. The challenge is compounded by new high performance applications that require instant access to new types and massive amounts of data from social networks, sensors, and mobile devices, along with data growing exponentially inside business applications."
— Quote found in an IBM press release titled “Made in IBM Labs: New IBM Software Accelerates Decision Making in the Era of Big Data”
April 4, 2012
"The BI, analytics and PM software market was the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software market in 2011"
— Quote found in a April 2, 2012 Gartner press release titled “Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Software Market Surpassed the $12 Billion Mark in 2011”
April 2, 2012
"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research."
— Quote by Ton Engbersen of IBM Research, Zurich. Quote found in an Astron press release titled “ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of Universe”
March 27, 2012
"The ability to conduct data analysis on a large scale, leveraging the power of ‘big data,’ has become increasingly essential to research and development. Just as important is the valuable new resource that we are creating for industry. The Institute will collaborate with businesses that need high-performance computing capabilities but can’t justify the cost of building their own system."
— Quote by Michael J. Pazzani, vice president for research and economic development and professor of computer science at Rutgers. Quote found in an IBM press release at “Rutgers Teams With IBM to Build Powerful High-Performance Computing Center in New Jersey”
March 22, 2012
"It will be like having a Memorial Sloan Kettering trained colleague for any doctor on earth,. The goal here is to be part of the relationship between doctor and patient"
— Quote by Mark Kris, Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Quote found in an online Forbes article titled: IBM Watson Hits Daily Double Fighting Cancer With Memorial Sloan Kettering
March 22, 2012
"The combination of transformational technologies found in Watson with our cancer analytics and decision-making process has the potential to revolutionize the accessibility of information for the treatment of cancer in communities across the country and around the world. We also expect tremendous new research opportunities to emerge from this collaboration."
— Quote by Craig B. Thompson, CEO of Sloan-Kettering. Quote found at a online BusinessWeek article titled: “IBM’s Watson to Help Memorial Sloan-Kettering With Cancer”
March 15, 2012
"Making decisions in today’s complex environment requires computerized methods that can analyze the vast amounts of patient information available to ease clinical decision-making. By providing our physicians with vital input on what worked best for patients with similar clinical characteristics, we can help improve treatment effectiveness and the final patient outcome."
— Quote by Dr. Marco A. Pierotti, Scientific Director at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (http://www.istitutotumori.mi.it/). Quote found in an online article at the Sacromento Bee: “IBM’s Biomedical Analytics Platform Helps Doctors Personalize Treatment.
February 21, 2012
"In sectors ranging from retail to healthcare to social media, the promise of Big Data has venture capitalists salivating. Venture firms invested a total of $2.47 billion last year in fields around big data, including database management and data processing, according to Thomson Reuters data. That compares to $1.53 billion in 2010 and $1.1 billion in 2009."
— Quote found in a Reuters online article titled “Venture capital sees big returns in big data”
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